The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-15
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Miss MARIE VAN ZANDT has entirely re-
gained her health.
IT is reported that Stanley has been offered
$50, 900 for a volume describing his present ex-
petition.
THE new Senator from Virginia. John s. Bar
bour adds another rich man to the Senate He
has been railroad president for over twenty
years.
Mr. LABoUcHERE graciously remarks that the
royal family of England treat the ex-Empress
Eugene kindly only because they hope to be
membered largely in her will
THE Countess of March, wife of the eldest
son of the Duke of Richmond, died the other
day from typhoid fever, caught through sleep
ing in a bedroom adjoining a bath room
Miss GRACE MATTHEW'S daughter of Justice
Stanley Matthews, will spend the winter in
Princeton, n. J.. keeping house for her brother
who is preparing to enter the ministry of the
Presbyterian Church.
EPOCH: 81 think, Mr.. Smith" said friend of
the family, that your poor wife looked so
lovely as she lay there at rest at last" YES,
replied the bereaved husband, "Mary always
did look well in white"
HARPERs Bazaar: Mamma-''Why, Ethel
dear, you mustn't get dolly out to-day. 1t is
Sunday you know" Ethel-"But, mamma, I'm
dressing her to go to Sunday school. you see. and
then I'm going to have her read the New York
Observer all the rest of the day."
CONGRESSMAN JOHN E. RUSSELL, of Massa-
chusetts, has made sensation in Washington
by appearing in a bluish-gray overcoat made of
wool which grew on his sheep at his Wor-
cester farm. 1t is remarkable garment but
Russell does not look at all sheepish account
of the attention he attracts when wearing it.
THE incident is recalled, in connection with
the death of Lord Lyons that when it became
his duty in 1863 to inform President Lincoln of
the marriage of the Prince of Wales. Mr.. Lin
coin. instead of a formal response to q cere-
monious speech, said bluntly, well, Lyons, go
thou and do likewise" But the diplomatic never
did marry, and his titles die with him.
WASHINGTON is great book buying centre
In bookstore in that city one afternoon recent
ly the following well known persons were
gathered at the same moment: Mrs. Cleveland.
Justices Gray, Matthews and Harlan, several
members of the Chinese legation, secretaries
Bayard and Whitney, Congressman French and
West and Senators Stockbridge and Edmunds.
VIM. D. HowELLs the novelist, was in the
White. mountains for a. time last summer
Henry Rogers, well-known Boston lawyer, was
present at a Tavern Club dinner at the Hub not
long ago. when the subject of the modesty
shown by authors was under discussion. yes"
he exclaimed 81 know something about that.
saw Howells UP at the White mountains last
summer. He was TIL en- posing as the Star of
Bethlehem How ellis who was present, did
not join in the laugh which followed.
UNTIL. Mile. Alice Gravy married, says a
writer in Truth, tI1ondonl. the Elysee under
her father was pleasant house. There were
and not seldom, brilliant soirees. The Presi-
dent was a most gracious host. General Pittie.
after the son-in-law came in tried to react
against his prosaic influence; but gradually he
became tired. and when he died parsimony and
prudence carried all before them The lights
were put out before 10 at night; pleasure was
banished for business. The Peruvian. Madame
Dreyfus stuck to Alice like her shadow. She
gave her a diamond necklace worth $40 000 Of
course dormant Dormant" implied in the
present.
THERE is extant letter from Dickens writ
ten soon after the publication of Nicholas
Nickleby." in which he says: You are right
about the popularity of the work, for its sale
has left that of 'Pickwick far behind-' How
ever this may have been at that time, the state
ment is surely not borne out by subsequent
events for in the editors preface to the hand
lust published it is stated that up to the end of
last year Messrs Chapman q Hall alone had
sold 600 900 copies of the immortal book. to say
nothing of many thousands which. SINCE the ex-
piration of the copyright some years ago, have
been issued by various publishers at prices vary
ing from guinea to a penny, or OF the sale IN
the United States, which must have approx1-
mated, if it has not exceeded, the sale at home
WHEN Modjeska interviewed the other
day in Kansas City on the burning subject of
Mrs. James Brown Potters stage efforts there
resulted a vigorous rhetorical outburst Let
me say" she said, that Mrs. Potter is failure,
and am glad of it. She cannot act at all. and
why should we, who love art for its sake, take
her by the handi When | was asked to call
upon her L said No For who is she ? A
wealthy society lady, with a husband who is
much handsomer than she, and two lovely
children. Why should artists recognize herl
She says she is going TO elevate the stage; ard
say, howl Is she going to teach US to be s1r-